"Tony, you never did tell us how you made the jump from selling patio furniture to precision optics."

I suck at life. I have not updated this in more than a month. But there is good news. I have had a lot of shit finish up recently and new stuff is coming my way. Part of my Lenten promise (that I'll start now) is to blog more often. Why? I don't know, it's the only rationalizing I can think of to make myself do this more. The whole point of this thing was to help me explore my creative side and to write more so I'm going to get back to basics and not worry if I have good material or funny stories. It'll be entertaing, I promise.

Choosy Moms Choose Jif

I've got the flu. I can't eat cause I feel sick, but then I get sick when I eat. Ugh. I wish this weather would warm up a bit; I've got the chills and I think I've "shook" off five pounds.

What are you supposed to drink/eat with the flu? OJ? Sprite? Water? Crackers? I never know.

I'm The Shadow On The Ground

I miss you guys.

I have not listened to enough music lately.

I'll tell you about New York later today...

bye.

Breedlove just looks really happy right now...

So I'm back. Hopefully. I'm sure.

This semester has started off amazing so far. I'm in the middle of a Rush Chapter meeting right and we've had so many great guys come through in the last two days.

New Year's Eve ---- > now:

New Year's Eve was really, really enjoyable. Katie and I went to the mall, got some jeans, a radar detector (her christmas present to me), and a jacket. That night was fun. It wasn't a blast, it wasn't a riot, which is exactly what I didn't want. Katie and I headed up to her friend's house up in Celina, Ohio and we chilled with her friends, Ashley and Drew, and a few others. A little card game with some wine, beer pong in the basement, and champagne at midnight. I have some great pictures that I will hopefully put up on my new photo site. yeaaaaaaaah, i have to get that done.

Sunday: I watched the Bengals game with my family. They played 2nd team against the Chiefs and bombed. It was Ok, I was going to Pittsburgh the next weekend. After that we had my two aunts, cousins, and my mom's parents/dad's mother over for dinner. It was very soon after the Christmas get-together so I didn't have anything new to bullshit about.

Monday: Katie and I hung around all day setting up her new digital camera and then we watched the OSU - ND game. It was glorious. We kicked ass.

Tuesday: I moved Katie into her dorm room in Oxford.

Wed-Thurs: I wasted time playing Madden and Battlefront.

Friday: Went back to school to move in

Sat: Went back to school to hang out.

Sun:


wow.


My family has had Bengals tickets for 30 some years and this was one of the hardest days of my life as a sports fan. You've probably already read about the Cincinnati/Pittsburgh game in other bogs, espn, the radio, everywhere else and so I won't post too long. Also, I lose all my witty inspiration when I go back to write this shit. It was horrible: Palmer went down, Kitna was running around like a kid with ADD, CJ got no yards, Rudi had less than 30 carries. The Bengals just lost it. It was really, really hard to watch. I was so excited to be there with my Dad after years and years of growing up in a Bengals household. I hope to write more on this in the offseason.

This past week I started my classes; it's gone by too fast to anything meaningful. Rush started. It's taking forever. I promise if I write about things when it happens, it will be funnier and more entertaining.

seacrest out.

Are You Ready For Some FOOTBAAALL?!?

Goodbye Monday Night Football. You will be missed.

O Holy Night

Just finished watching "It's a Wonderful Life." Best Christmas movie ever (with Christmas Vacation and the Grinch in close company). I swear, I've seen it 30 times, and I cry every time. What's it to you, anyway!?!

Now I'm getting ready for midnight Mass at St. Patrick's. Hopefully the music group beefs it up this year and gives us some good ol' Christmas tunes.

I'll post later while I wait for St. Nick down in the den...

whodey.

bartender please

great night. I went down to my mom's family christmas in Centerville and hung out with my cousins for the night. We are Italian so lasagna is the main course, of course. whoa, that was weird...a horse.

My cousin Alex wins the "will harrelson gift giver of the night award" for his gift of bar-noculars and a bottle of Skyy vodka. yeah, he pretty much wins hands down. I also got a copy of Dave Matthews Band: Live at Folsom Field from my other cousin, Adrian and my Aunt Betsey.

I'm now just polishing off a bottle of Johnny Walker Red and watching the Folsom Field dvd. It's from July of 2001, so it features a ton of the Lilywhite Sessions. The first DMB dvd I ever watched was Central Park (2003) so this is a lot different. Much rawer (if that's a word) and obviously less production. Fenton is amazing.

Ok, off to finish this concert and then to bed...long day ahead of me tommorrow. stay tuned for details. i told you they were coming!

Merry Christmas Eve.

Ok, so a month break was long enough...

I'm back, and hopefully for good this time. I'll try and piece together the last month as best I can and quickly at that.

• Thanksgiving break was fine, it went by really quickly. Family at our house this year, cousin and I got boozed up before dinner, fell asleep soon after due to the damn tryptiphan or whatever. I ended up doing nothing productive but slept in till noon or later every morning. Well deserved sleep
• The following week was really busy; only two weeks of classes till finals. I actually started some "study-organizing" to prepare for finals early. I think it helped.
• Saturday the 3rd was the DrunkShoe Christmas Party. It was a huge success! We bought two punch bowls, two liters of hawaiian punch, four quarts of Southern Comfort Egg Nog, a fifth of bacardi, a fifth of lady bligh, and a fifth of jim beam. Add some Goose Island Christmas Ale and a case of natty and it was a guaranteed success.
• Sunday was last chapter meeting of the semester. We also listened to a speech by Dr. John Altman, a distinguished alumnus of Miami and a member of my father's fratnerity: Delta Tau Delta. He spoke to us on many issues including entrepenurship, stewardship, and the appreciation for greek life. It was very informative and he also showed us the dvd of the For Love and Honor campaign drive for Miami.
• Tuesday our year end ARP project for accounting was due. It sucked. I still got a 97.
• Wednesday was the start of a great weekend. We had a gift exchange at the house and I ended up with a bottle of Dickel. That was fun. After that, we all headed up to see Jason Aldean at Brick Street. It was a fun concert, great setlist, and he played some Skynyrd.
• Thursday was my last ACC and Econ class of the semester! It also was one of the worst days of the semester as I hit a stressed out moment about exams, flipped my lid when I found out that I didn't have to take the final in Geography but ended up taking it anyway because I missed the class in which it was announced, and I lost my phone.
• Friday I studied for a little while and then watched some of Elf at Katie's place.
• Saturday I went home to study and get a temp demo phone.
• Sunday I started studying full time at the library
• Monday (12/12) was a full study day as I had no exams till Tuesday
• Tuesday was study and Econ final
• Wednesday was hell day: I had Geo, MIS, and ACC exams.
• Thursday was a day to organize and study Music.
• Friday I took my Music exam and helped katie move out of her apt.
• Saturday I headed home...

This week had been pretty uneventful. I've worked on a few projects around the house, including framing a bunch of dave matthews band and o.a.r. posters sitting around my room. I also have helped my mom send out christmas cards and i've planned my trip to NYC in three weeks.

I'm so psyched to see O.A.R. live at Madison Square Garden! I have front row tickets which should just make this show unbelievable...I can't believe i'm flying into NYC on a saturday morning and leaving on a sunday afternoon just for one show.

Tonight (friday) is our family christmas on my mom's side. More updates after I re-watch conan.

Happy Festivus!

A festivus for the rest of us...